{"id":7989,"date":"2013-09-22T23:44:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T04:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=7989"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:30:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T02:30:14","slug":"fowlkes-jeptha-m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/fowlkes-jeptha-m\/","title":{"rendered":"FOWLKES, Jeptha M."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Memphis<\/p>\n<p><strong>FOWLKES, Jeptha M<\/strong><b>., <\/b>business man; born Shelby Co., Tenn., March 4, 1847; English descent; son of <strong>Jeptha<\/strong> and <strong>Maria (Baker) FOWLKES<\/strong><b>; <\/b>educated in private schools of Memphis, Tenn.; began his career as bookkeeper, later cotton factor, and since 1889 he has been secretary and treasurer of Merchants Cotton Press &amp; Storage Co., Memphis, Tenn., is also vice-president and director Mercantile Bank, and State Savings Bank, Memphis, Tenn.; married <strong>Anne LOMBARD<\/strong>, Aug. 31, 1886; member Tennessee Club; Democrat; former postmaster of Memphis, Tenn., 1885-89; vice-mayor of Memphis, Tenn., 1894-98.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City:\u00a0 Memphis FOWLKES, Jeptha M., business man; born Shelby Co., Tenn., March 4, 1847; English descent; son of Jeptha and Maria (Baker) FOWLKES; educated in private schools of Memphis, Tenn.; began his career as bookkeeper, later cotton factor, and since 1889 he has been secretary and treasurer of Merchants Cotton Press &amp; Storage Co., Memphis, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[261,4410,4419],"tags":[252,1638,3014],"class_list":{"0":"post-7989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-shelby","7":"category-surname-f","8":"category-x_featured-image-no","9":"tag-baker","10":"tag-fowlkes","11":"tag-lombard","12":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7989"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7992,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7989\/revisions\/7992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}